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Tribes, Traditions Modern Practices of African Dance — DAN2135.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Souleymane Badolo
Credits: 2
In this course, we will focus on the specific dance in many areas of Africa including: Zimbabwe, South Africa, Ghana, Benin, Niger, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire. We will study the movement history and meaning behind these different cultural styles and work to understand the many different stories that inform them. Students will be expected to research the use of costume
Dance

Tristram Shandy and the Pointless Novel — LIT4766.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
“Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last,” Samuel Johnson wrote in 1776, a decade after Laurence Sterne’s novel was published. Tristram Shandy is indeed an odd book: an autobiographical novel which takes hundreds of pages to get to the moment of its own narrator’s birth; a story which is forever interrupting itself with digressions and typographical oddities, and
Literature

Trusting the Body: Form, Balance and Letting Go — DAN4371.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
In this class we pose the questions: How do we create or utilize movement that is meaningful and essential to our dance making? and how does our movement evolve and how do we work with it and direct its potential? We will consider the relevance and importance of how depth and continuity of practice in our various forms can be the basic framework for our evolution as movement
Dance

Truth and Consequences: The Uses (and Misuses) of Literary Persona — LIT2514.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Paul La Farge
Credits: 4
This will be a class about writers who have invented literary personae which complicate (and in some cases frustrate) the reading of their work. Questions about the uses of persona, the historical contexts in which persona become valuable, and the boundaries of the “literary” – the places where works of literature create anxiety by impinging on ideas about authority,
Literature

Truth, Beauty, and Goodness: The Philosophy of Iris Murdoch — PHI4108.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Douglas Kremm
Credits: 4
Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was a provocative and profoundly original thinker whose significance for contemporary philosophy is still being processed and absorbed today. Her work engages a wide range of topics, including art and religion, morals and politics, metaphysics and mysticism, the nature of the imagination, and the nature of the self. In this course, we will engage with
Society Culture and Thought

Tuesday Soup-er Club Intensive: Bennington Foodscape — APA2168.02

Spring 2020
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 2
This is a trans-disciplinary course that investigates local food sovereignty. Incorporating activities such as collective soup making to intersect with academic research and theoretical reading, this course aims to enhance our overall understandings about the modern day food chain (i.e. industrial food production and systems of distribution). The Soup-er Club will create
CAPA

Tuesday Soup-er Club: Cooking is Power — APA2168.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 2
This is a transdisciplinary course that investigates local and global food sovereignty. Incorporating activities such as collective soup making to intersect with academic research and theoretical reading, this course aims to enhance our overall understandings about the modern day food chain (i.e. industrial food production and systems of distribution). Through collaborative
CAPA

Tune-smithing: Creating Melody — MCO4003.02

Fall 2025
Instructor: Rachel Clemente
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 2

In this course we will be looking at the harmonic and melodic structures of traditional Gaelic (Highlands and Islands of Scotland) melodies as well as the contemporary music of the Scottish folk music revival to draw on and create new compositions. Students will compose four melodies (or one larger work) in a variety of traditional styles utilizing the different tune forms

Composition

Tuning Scores for the Present Moment — DAN4334.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
This composition class is based on the work of dance artist Lisa Nelson. Students will learn techniques to bring awareness to the body’s senses, space, and one another through a series of ‘warm-ups’, ‘scores’ and group compositions, collectively known as Tuning Scores. Warm-ups are designed to bring sensorial awareness to the animal body that extends into space and surrounding
Dance

Turbulent Transitions — PEC4122.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Robin Kemkes
Credits: 4
This course will explore some of the major economic transitions throughout history with a particular focus on the pre-conditions underlying the changes and the resulting socio-economic developments. The course will span a broad time period across several regions of the world. First, we will study the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Europe. Next, we will pursue the
Social Science

Turgenev and Flaubert — LIT4204.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Dan Hofstadter
Credits: 4
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883), the great Russian novelist, left his homeland in 1854 and spent most of the rest of his life in Paris, where he died. Though he wrote in Russian, he was also a writer of pan-European cultural connections, his closest friends being Pauline (García) Viardot, a distinguished Spanish-born opera singer and composer, and Gustave Flaubert (1821
Literature

Turkish Music Ensemble — MHI2236.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Joseph Alpar
Credits: 4
This course will be a hands-on instruction to performing the musics of Turkey. Students will become acquainted with the performance practices of Turkish music genres including Ottoman court music, the ritual music of Sufi Islam, the Alevi cem ceremony, music of Turkey's religious minorities including Jews, Greeks, and Armenians, Kurdish music, the folk musics of Turkey's seven
Music

TV Comedy Pilot I — DRA4393.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Credits: 4
In this course, I will be working with a small group of students to explore the process of writing a comedy pilot for television. We’ll be reading and watching pilots from some of the best comedies of the last decade or so (Detroiters, Community, What We Do In The Shadows, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, etc.) to learn how they function and what makes a great pilot. Each week students will
Drama

TV Shows and The Contemporary Chinese Society — CHI4219.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 5
This course invites students to observe and discuss contemporary Chinese society by watching seven of the currently most popular TV shows in mainland China. We will discuss topics such as class, gender, marriage, paternal bond, family ethics, Chinese social development, etc., as are represented by these shows of different genres. The aim of this course is to expose students to
Cultural Studies and Languages

TV Shows, Social media and The Contemporary Taiwanese Society — CHI4406.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Ginger Lin
Credits: 4
This course encourages students to explore and analyze contemporary Taiwanese society through the lens of popular TV shows currently airing in Taiwan. Topics for discussion will include identity, democracy, indigenous culture, immigration and multiculturalism,  Tech industry, gender equality, LGBTQ+rights, marriage, family structure, and the broader social development of
Cultural Studies and Languages

Twelve Objects: An Introduction to Art History — AH2108.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Zirwat Chowdhury
Credits: 4
This part-lecture, part-discussion course offers a survey of the history of art through close study of twelve objects selected from a wide chronological and geographical breadth. Each object will serve as notable example of an important artistic movement, as well as illustrate a key art historical term or method. The course will present students with an overview
Visual Arts

Twelve Objects: An Introduction to Art History — AH2108.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Zirwat Chowdhury
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This part-lecture, part-discussion course offers a survey of the history of art through close study of twelve objects selected from a wide chronological and geographical breadth. Each object will serve as notable example of a canonical artistic movement, as well as illustrate a key art historical term. The course will offer students an overview of important movements, themes,
Visual Arts

Twentieth-Century American Women Playwrights — DRA2183.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
This course examines the ways in which American female playwrights of the twentieth century engaged with modernity, feminist and civil rights movements, concepts of national and cultural identity, and a wide range of theatrical genres and styles--from the realist problem play and “Golden Age” Broadway comedy through modernism and the avant-garde. Exploring the diversity
Drama

Twisted Siblings: Relationships Between Painting and Architecture — ARC4215.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Anthony Titus
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Architecture and painting are two of the oldest forms of societal expression and have been historically linked in complex and dynamic ways. In the 20th century, the movements of Cubism, Futurism, Neo-Plasticism, and Constructivism exemplified vigorous relationships between painting and architecture. The course seeks to create new connections between the two disciplines in the
Unknown

Type | Prototype — ARC4125.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Farhad Mirza (new faculty as of 8/27/2021)
Credits: 4
The relationship between form and site has been of paramount concern to architects and planners through the ages. In this studio we will focus on programmatic analysis and the significance of site, and how context and function might influence the design of spaces/buildings. The first half of the term we will study libraries. Looking at precedents both traditional and
Visual Arts

Typography for Artists and Designers — PRI4213.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
In this intermediate-advanced level course, we will study Typographic design and its application to making visual art. We will learn design fundamentals, some history, and use this knowledge to produce unusual art works. If this course can be taught in person, it will take place in The Word Image Lab, Letterpress studio. If we cannot meet in person, this course will take
Visual Arts

U.S.-Asian Relations (c. 1800-Present) — HIS2146.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course explores US relations with East and Southeast Asia from the early 1800s up through the present. We examine how transnational and international forces have shaped pivotal moments across three centuries, including the Opium Wars (1840s-1860s), the Meiji Restoration (1868-1889), US seizure of the Philippines (1899-1902), the two World Wars, the Vietnam War (1954-1975),
Cultural Studies and Languages Society Culture and Thought

Ukulele — MIN2230.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: john kirk
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
A comprehensive course on learning skills on the ukulele. We will learn the history of the uke and both traditional and contemporary styles. Music theory and playing techniques will be covered and students will be expected to perform as a group or individually at Music Workshop. Students must have their own soprano or tenor ukulele.
Music

Ukulele Comprehensive — MIN2230.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 1
A comprehensive course in learning skills on the ukulele. We will learn the history of the uke and both traditional and contemporary styles of playing it. Music theory and playing techniques will be covered and students will be expected to perform as a group or individually at Music Workshop. Students must have their own soprano or tenor ukulele.
Music

Ukulele Comprehensive — MIN2230.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: John Kirk
Credits: 1
A comprehensive course in learning skills on the ukulele. We will learn the history of the uke and both traditional and contemporary styles of playing it. Music theory and playing techniques will be covered and students will be expected to perform as a group or individually at Music Workshop. Students must have their own soprano or tenor ukulele.
Music